A very exciting interview is in store, as this time we get caught up with James Kemp, the founder and owner of IconicWP, a thriving premium WooCommerce plugins store. James, thanks for agreeing to share and talk about your WordPress products and business strategies with us. Why don’t we start off by getting to know
How Barn2media More Than Tripled Their WordPress Plugins Sales Without Spending More Time On Support
Katie Keith and her husband Andy co-founded Barn2Media in late 2009. Initially dedicated to designing WordPress websites for clients, they envisioned building their business around selling products since early on. After a few failed attempts, in 2016, they managed to successfully shift their focus over to developing premium WordPress plugins. Their plugin business has been doing […]
How We Use Email Marketing Automation to Fill The Gaps for New Subscribers And Bump Up The Blog’s Conversion Rate
We’ve recently decided to take advantage of MailChimp’s (free) email marketing automation feature in order to fill a gap we’ve been unable to manually bridge for our new blog subscribers. In this post I share the email marketing automation technique we’ve come up with, using tools that are available for everyone. I’ll provide an inside […]
MooMoo Agency Builds Powerful Relationships with WordPress Plugin Buyers Through Simple Business Moves
Vitalii Kiiko is a passionate and experienced WordPress plugin and theme developer, who recently provided us some great feedback and kindly agreed to share his story. He is a co-founder and works as a back-end developer at both HighSea Studio and MooMoo Web Studio. Vitalii, thank you so much for agreeing to tell us about
“Our Biggest Challenges in Running A WordPress Plugin & Theme Business in 2018” by MotoPress
In this guest post by Alexander Mat, co-founder at MotoPress, he shares and discusses his company’s biggest challenges in today’s saturated and Guten-stirred WordPress business sphere. MotoPress has been financially successful in creating WordPress plugins and themes for small and midsize businesses for quite some time now, so it is interesting to get Alexander’s take […]
“WordPress Security Solutions Are Still Inaccessible” – Interviewing French “Mister Security”, Julio Potier
Voiced by Amazon Polly Julio Potier is a prominent figure in the WordPress security scene. Based in France, he developed SecuPress, a plugin that makes securing WordPress websites easy. He also co-founded WP Media, the company behind popular Plugins such as WP Rocket and Imagify. Julio, thank you for agreeing to do this
Success Story: How Migrating ThemeKraft’s Plugins to Freemius Saved Them from The EU VAT Mess
This success story will focus on Sven Lehnert’s amazing entrepreneurial journey. Sven is a developer and a businessman from Germany who most famously created BuddyForms. He’s also the CEO at ThemeKraft, which partnered with Freemius to monetize all of their WordPress products. Sven, thanks for agreeing to tell us your story! Can you give us […]
You Shouldn’t Put All Your Eggs In The WordPress Basket – Interviewing CreativeMinds CEO, David Rashty
Today we’ll get to pick David Rashty’s mind about WordPress-based product businesses and entrepreneurship. David owns several WordPress-based products, as well as various Magento-based ones. Additionally, he’s a seed investor, actively hunting for great early-stage ventures in which he invests his money. David, thanks for agreeing to do this interview with us! Let’s start by getting […]
I Want to Sell My WordPress Product Business – Now What?
If you’ve been following the WordPress products space, it’s hard to ignore all the plugin and theme acquisitions going around. While it’s a common thing, surprisingly, there’s almost no public information on the topic. In the past few months alone I was contacted by 4 different developers who were interested in selling their plugin/theme business […]
Three Types of WordPress Product Customers You Should Fire (and How to Fire Them)
It’s inevitable in any business that some users will not be satisfied with what you are able to provide for them, or may become a drain on you or your business in other ways. While I always try to err on the side of caution instead of assuming a customer is to blame, sometimes problematic […]